Thomas Heatherwick and Richard Seymour will be at the Global Design Forum

Speakers at the event, which is making its debut this year, include Thomas Heatherwick, Yves Béhar and Tom Dixon. They will debate the future of design and innovation, with delegates encouraged to join in the conversation.

The forum is an attempt to add a more critical and campaigning edge to LDF, with the organisers saying, ‘The celebratory nature of LDF takes place against a backdrop of political and economic unrest across the world.’

Highlights elsewhere include the This Is How To Live exhibition, organised by Manifold and the National Trust, at architect Ernö Goldfinger’s self-designed former home in Willow Road, Hampstead.

2 Willow Road

The exhibition examines and compares the work of Goldfinger and William Morris in two parallel site-specific installations, one at Willow Road and one at the Red House in Bexleyheath.

Northumbria University is hosting the Design School Studio Culture exhibition at its London Campus, on White Lion Street, Islington, which promises ‘an introduction to a future socio-enviro-techno integrated world.